Fraud employees

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Dear Colchester Borough Council,

Could you please disclose how many council employees have been suspended over allegations of fraud? How many of those were suspended on full pay?
If you are able to, please provide some detail on the type of fraud commited

Please provide an annual break down from 2017-2021

Yours faithfully,

Gurpreet Kaur

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Dear Gurpreet Kaur,

Thank you for contacting Colchester Borough Council with your Freedom of
Information request regarding: Fraud employees.

We do hold the information you have requested and it has been provided in
this email. Additional comments (if any) can be found below:

Thank you for your freedom of information request.

The response is as follows:

Could you please disclose how many council employees have been suspended
over allegations of fraud? No staff have been suspended over allegations
of fraud.

How many of those were suspended on full pay? No staff have been suspended
on full pay.
If you are able to, please provide some detail on the type of fraud
committed - Not applicable, we have not had any instances of fraud in the
Council.

Please provide an annual break down from 2017-2021: 

2017 - 0 cases

2018 - 0 cases

2019 - 0 cases

2020 - 0 cases

2021 - 0 cases

Thank you for your enquiry. I trust that answers your questions.

Kind regards

 

 

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